Are shamans more caster or more melee? I heard they can go both ways depending on the player, but they seem like a caster to me..would a melee shammy be good in PvP?

I played a warrior in OB.. I sorta enjoyed it, but I was hoping maybe Shammy had more to offer..

[Edited by Sutekani at 1:49 PM on 11/21/2004]

Shamans are good in PvP. They are weak vs certain classes but overall they hold their own.

I liked the Shaman because as long as you conserved your mana or had a few mana potions you could wade into melee and do just fine. Granted, once a Shaman runs out of mana they have a much rougher time of meleeing. Easy way to conserve mana in a fight .... Pull with a lightning or 2, throw down a Stoneskin and Fire Totem and melee away. Add in a Shock or 2 if needed (GREAT against casters) rinse repeat. At level 23 I was soloing pretty much everything I could find that was up to lvl 26.

Tomorrow my Shaman will be reincarnated :)

Kodos

I didn't start my shaman until the end of beta so didn't get to the talents, but I believe there are trees for melee and for spells. So if you want to be a nuker you can get the lightning talents, or you can take the melee talents and focus on that. I think overall they are more caster, with heals, buffs and totems, but those can be used to support yourself in melee. They are kinda like paladins.

With rockbiter weapon I was hitting with my mace for higher then most warriors my level, so I took advantage of that and stayed primarily melee. I'd pull with lightning, and engage with melee, throwing in a shock to interupt casting or add damage, and healing if I needed it. Totems can be placed too, but they used a lot of mana so I only used them if I was in a really tough fight.

Well for me this is my rule wen you make shaman and hit lv 20 you have Demigod you can use the wolf travel is preatty cool and the if you have 20 talents you can use the 2hd for me the best choice .But wen you hit lv 40 My good shamans friends we are Godssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.Well is real cool kill warriors and paladines only use purge and charge kick hit and use  frost but first use purge and wen you hit (rockbite ) the paldine all times said fuck i am lost lol put earth totem near you and fire nova and sure you win

Drako

I am shocked and amazed that I understood what you said soydrako. ^^  But, yea you're definately right, but we're not overpowered, we're just versitile.

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Tomorrow my Shaman will be reincarnated :)

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Reincarnation isn't that good. Only purpose is when your whole group gets wiped in an instance when you're far in. Because of 10 min ressurection sickness.

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Sutekani wrote:

Are shamans more caster or more melee? I heard they can go both ways depending on the player, but they seem like a caster to me..would a melee shammy be good in PvP?

I played a warrior in OB.. I sorta enjoyed it, but I was hoping maybe Shammy had more to offer..

[Edited by Sutekani at 1:49 PM on 11/21/2004

shammy's r melee/caster's not caster/melee  in a typical fight the amount of damage done is going to be about 65% or more melee especially when u get windfury with a 2hander and 30 or so %nuke damage so u do the math:)